This classic of science fiction literature has been on my "to read" list for awhile and I finally got around to reading it. In a post-apocalyptic desert in the southwestern U.S. in a land devastated by nuclear war that essentially is a new Dark Ages inhabited by mutant victims of radiation and religious communities. The residents of a cloistered monastery worship Leibowitz and study the "holy relics" created by him. The relics amount to blueprints and random memos found in an abandoned fallout shelter where. The novel covers thousands of years centered around the monastery of St. Leibowitz up to a time in the far future when world annihilation is once again a threat. The appearance of "The Wanderer", a strange man who is apparently immortal, leads some of the monks to believe he is, in fact, Leibowitz. Even though this book was published in 1959, many of the topics are timely which cements it's place as a classic.
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